10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIPPODROMIC»
Discover the use of
hippodromic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hippodromic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema
"Nothing is better than the hippodromic point of view in the glorifying of American
young ladies," J. Brooks Atkinson commented of the later Follies.11 The "
hippodromic point of view" situated female spectacle within the larger spectacle
of the ...
But in Mills' Jackson the equestrian element is essentially vulgar and
hippodromic His hero has no advantage, in the dignity of his r&le, over Mr.
Franconi putting his favorite charger What's-his-name through the "buck leaps."
But, my dear ...
3
The World and His Wife, Or, A Person of Consequence: A ...
... whom, as he was wont to express it, she was, poor soul, as particklar about "as
if she'd a bin reglar quality, and all straight on both sides," he was not sure would
much relish bis hippodromic enterprise. " But lawr," continued he, as he rapidly, ...
Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton, 1858
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Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, ...
But in Mills' Jackson the equestrian element is essentially vulgar and
hippodromic. His hero has no advantage, in the dignity of his role, over Mr.
Franconi putting his favorite charger What's-his-name through the I'buck leaps.”
But, my dear ...
5
Greville; Or, a Season in Paris
To-day, je donne d diner to the young Due and Duchesse de Clermont, and one
or two more who, though possessing the hippodromic organ and frequenting all
the races in the environs do Paris, do not aspire to the honours of lionism.
Catherine Grace Frances Gore, 1841
6
Routledge's Every Boy's Annual: An Original Miscellany of ...
... whilst I, with my precious little charge, sought shelter in a cab. Although during
the evening I had seen many noble sights—gymnastic, hippodromic, and
pugilistic,-—yet the sight I enjoyed most'was to see Charley in the cab, mounted ...
7
Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments
When Socrates presses on him the question of, whether he as a rhapsodist is as
well versed in nautical, hippodromic, and other arts, as sailors, charioteers, and
various artisans ? he gives up the point with the most foolish inanity. One would ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1852
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*Kitāb Wafayāt Al-aʿyān: 1: Paris
x, '5' I. s (3) Literally: That answer is hippodromic. He meant that,» the advantages
of each adversary are alternaterin a well-played game of malt, so it was in this
grammatical contest. (4) See M. de Sacy's Grammat're ambe, t. I. pp. 60, 64.
9
Chilly Billy: The Evolution of a Circus Millionaire
... the country in early spring. The opening in Detroit was advertised under the
title of W. W. Cole's Colossal Museum, Hippodrome, and Menagerie.10 The term
"Hippodrome" referred to the arena performance, not a hippodromic style of races
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... designer of elaborate schemes; for the last thing she expected was to have to
make her plunge into the innermost circle of Odysseus' life without the least
preparation, indeed with what might almost be called a “hippodromic” leap.
However!